Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - A plane that carried paratroopers into Normandy during World War II has been brought back to life and is now on display at Chennault International Airport. Seventy-six years ...
Mark your calenders, history-buffs and aviation geeks: That’s All, Brother — the historic Douglas C-47 Skytrain airplane that soared over the beachers of Normandy on D-Day 80 years ago — is returning ...
WWII C-47 pilot Alan Shapiro, now 101, returned to the skies with the American Airpower Museum for a special commemorative ...
(WBIR - Knoxville) For more than 20 years, Stan Brock has taken to the skies from the Downtown Island Airport in Knoxville in an old Douglas C-47 aircraft. Brock and other volunteers with the group ...
The angels rose slowly in the dead of night, thousands of them in low formation across the English Channel. From British shores the American troopers were a prayer sent, and in French skies, one ...
The Placid Lassie flew in from its homebase in Poughkeepsie, New York, for the Wings N' Wheels event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Claire Barrett) In 1943, the Placid Lassie took to the skies for ...
TULSA. Okla. — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum hosted a rare World War II aircraft, a two engine military transport craft C-47 called "Hairless Joe." The plane is based at Willow Run Airport in ...
Part of the D-Day commemorations will happen thanks to the work of some Tulsans. On Wednesday, a formation of 30 C-47 aircraft will fly over the English Channel. They're retracing the route the same ...
Vince Speranza, 98, jumped from the sky once more on Saturday more than 75 years after the veteran paratrooper made training jumps in the final days of World War II. Organizers said Speranza, of the ...